A 200GB hard drive upgrade for your MacBook or MacBook Pro

I am trying to see if the 200gb drive you can get now with the macbook creates less heat then the rest of them and less battery decay

if anyone knows let us know.....

Please help. I got the 160gn (hitachi) and started the install however wheni get to select destination it is not seen. Any advice?

I will upgrade to 200 gig hd for my Mcbook Pro if I can find one I am using osx and xp on the same computer and can use an additional 80 gig of internad disk space.

You can get the Toshiba drives from OWC for $300 - here

I just purchased the Toshiba for $248.00 at shentech.com. It's an upgrade for my 160GB drive wich is getting filled up.

Just this morning (before reading this TUAW article) I was researching either the Seagate 7200.2 120GB SATA or the Hitachi 5K120 (120GB, 5400rpm).

So three questions:

1) Is a 7200rpm drive really and measurably faster than 5400rpm, or is it all subjective?

2) Do the faster drives drain your battery faster?

3) Finally, do the faster drives generate a measurably higher temperature? My MB is hot enough underneath even with the new heat sink (yay, no more RSS issues).

Roland Thomas
"Switched in July '06"

(Loud squeaky hinge, de-calibrated battery and now faulty heat sink; is this the quality control that is supposed to impress the Switchers?)

I bought my MBP with the 200 gig drive. I went 17 Inch Glossy.

You can find those drives over at pricewatch
for the Toshiba drive: http://castle.pricewatch.com/s/search.asp?s=Toshiba+MK2035GSS

Upgrading hard drives in Macs... for the longest time, I comteplated doing the upgrade on my Mac mini, but then bought a MBP 15" 2.0Ghz in April. Now my 100gb drive is pretty full and I move stuff off the drive on a constant basis.

But even though some say there is no difference in the seek rates on the 4200rpm drives, I'm going to wait for the 5400rpm 9.5mm 200gb drives to ship. It's not worth it to me to just go to the 160gb level and then have to do it all again 3-4 months later.

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The same exact thing happened to me, albeit with a plain vanilla MacBook. Bought a 160gb Hitachi Travelstar, enthusiastically filled it with my life whilst ignoring the pesky warning in my head telling me to back up, and then watched in horror as one morning it committed the electronic equivalent of seppuku.

Not being able to afford data recovery services, I am out about 150gb of my data, at least 40gb of which is irreplaceable. So I would also remind those who choose to go with large hard drives, especially in portables, that backing up your data is paramount. I lost everything I did on my MacBook for three months. It isn't fun. Spare yourself the aggravation.

At least Hitachi was helpful in processing my RMA and I'm now just waiting for my replacement drive. I can guarantee that I'll be backing up regularly this time around.